Dance

Reviews

Creature

Direction and choreography Akram Khan

English National Ballet

Sadler's Wells

23 September–2 October 2021

Nobody

Created and directed by Kevin Finnan

Motionhouse

Peacock Theatre

22–25 September 2021

Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes

Matthew Bourne, based on the film by Michael Powell and Emmeric Pressburger

New Adventures

Released 21 September 2021

W.A.Y (re-work)

Choreography by Sung Im Her, music by Husk Husk

The Place

17–18 September 2021

Double Murder

Hofesh Shechter

Hofesh Shechter Company

Sadler’s Wells Theatre

14–18 September 2021

Coppelia

Director and choreographer Kevan Allen; music Rickard Berg after Léo Delibes

KVN Dance Company

The Cockpit

2–11 September 2021

The Green Table

Kurt Jooss

The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago / Wocomo Music

The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago

From 26 August 2021

Martha Graham: Virtual Gala Performance

Various choreographers

ESD (Eliot Smith Dance) Presents

31 July 2021

The Rite of Spring

Igor Stravinsky

Opera North in association with Phoenix Dance Theatre

Grand Theatre, Leeds

23 July 2021–23 January 2022

Rambert Summer Livestream 2021: Eye Candy / Rouge

Choreography Imre van Opstal & Marne van Opstal, Marion Motin

Rambert

Rambert Home Studio

15–17 July 2021

Beauty Mixed Programme: Anemoi / Divertissements / The Sleeping Beauty Act III

Choreography Valentino Zucchetti, Arthur Pita, Wayne McGregor, Kenneth MacMil...

The Royal Ballet

Royal Opera House

9 July–8 August 2021

Cinderella

Choreographer: Sir David Bintley; Music: Sergei Prokofiev

Birmingham Royal Ballet

The Lyric, Theatre Royal Plymouth

8–10 July 2021

News

McNicol Ballet reimagines Firebird on film

16 September 2021

McNicol Ballet Collective will release Firebird Reimagined, a new dance film, on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.

East London Dance new leadership

16 September 2021

Tia Hassan and Kate Scanlan have been jointly appointed to the position of Creative Director and Chief Executive on a job share basis.

Collective IDentity tours exhibition

16 September 2021

Danielle Teale’s Collective IDentity Project work with dancers with Parkinson's will tour an exhibition, Who we are now, and then….

Dance Passion commissions announced

16 September 2021

BBC and One Dance UK announce 14 artists from across the UK commissioned to create new projects as part of Dance Passion 2022.

How long is a piece of string?

13 September 2021

A new interactive show for children is coming to the North East, developed with the support of Dance City.

ROH autumn streams of opera and ballet

12 September 2021

The Royal Opera House will stream six productions from its 2021/22 season on selected Fridays then on-demand for 30 days.

Royal Opera and Ballet at the movies

12 September 2021

The Royal Opera House has launched its 2021/22 international Cinema Season after sixteen months of closure, broadcasting to more than 2,000 screens across the globe.

Leanne Benjamin: Built For Ballet

9 September 2021

Former Royal Ballet star Leanne Benjamin's new autobiography will be released on 1 November.

Transgender tragedy dances into Birmingham

9 September 2021

Spanish-born choreographer Carlos Pons Guerra and his DeNada Dance Theatre are to return to the UK with Pons Guerra’s latest work Mariposa, a transgender tragedy inspired by Puccini’s Madame Butterfly.

Introducing the next generation of choreographers

Sadler’s Wells Young Associates on film

5 September 2021

Sadler’s Wells has released Introducing the next generation of choreographers, a series of four short films by Sadler’s Wells Young Associates, available free on Digital Stage.

ROH opera and ballet schools matinées

5 September 2021

The Royal Opera House has announced details of this year’s schools’ matinées, bringing ballet and opera to more than 10,000 pupils.

Sarah Lamb in rehearsal for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ©2011 ROH

World Ballet Day 2021

5 September 2021

The world’s top ballet companies come together for the biggest-ever global celebration of dance, with a free digital live-stream on 19 October.

Rural dance returns with seven shows

5 September 2021

Rural Touring Dance Initiative will tour to rural venues this autumn with shows from Scottish Dance Theatre, Edifice, Sonia Sabri Company, Joshua ‘Vendetta’ Nash, Mr & Mrs Clark and Chris Patfield and José Triguero.

Sergei Polunin at The London Palladium

1 September 2021

Ballet dancer Sergei Polunin will visit the London Palladium for one night only to promote his autobiography, Free: A Life In Images And Words.

Myths and Dreams from Fertile Ground

28 August 2021

Dance company Fertile Ground presents three new works from four choreographers.

Birmingham dance festival returns

27 August 2021

Birmingham International Dance Festival is to return outdoors and in venues across the city, and will include the world première of an “operatic dance drama”.

balletLORENT back on tour

24 August 2021

The tour of balletLORENT’s The Lost Happy Endings resumes in September.

Royal Opera House Young ROH scheme

20 August 2021

The Royal Opera House has launched its Young ROH scheme, offering 30,000 subsidised tickets for theatregoers aged 16 to 25.

Room to Room dance solos on film

20 August 2021

Filmed by Ravi Deepres, Joseph Toonga choreographs Natalia Osipova, Catarina Carvalho choreographs Hearns Sebuado and Ana Maria Lucaciu choreographs Vidya Patel.

Southpaw brings ACEDIA to Sunderland’s Athenaeum

17 August 2021

ACEDIA, an innovative mix of live dance and technology from Southpaw Dance Company, comes to The Athenaeum in Sunderland over the August Bank Holiday weekend.

McNicol Ballet's Awakenings

15 August 2021

The McNicol Ballet Collective will make its debut with Awakenings, a programme of four pieces choreographed by Andrew McNicol, in London and Hull.

Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance re-opening

15 August 2021

Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre have announced a re-opening date and an autumn season of dance and theatre.

Dance-theatre crime drama

14 August 2021

The autumn, VOXED will tour dance-theatre crime drama Out Late by Wayne Parsons to The Place, London and Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.

Jeyasingh's TooMortal at St Pancras

14 August 2021

Shobana Jeyasingh's work for historic churches, TooMortal, is back in London for four performances at St Pancras Church.

Motionhouse tours with Nobody

13 August 2021

Motionhouse's new production, Nobody, will première in London followed by an extensive tour, visiting Denmark, England, Germany, Scotland and Wales.

Dance Umbrella announces live programme

7 August 2021

London annual international dance festival Dance Umbrella will return this October with live, in-person performances for the first time since 2019 alongside digital events.

ENB: new season updates

5 August 2021

English National Ballet's Emerging Dancer Celebration to be live-streamed; Erina Takahasi celebrates 25 years with company; Akram Khan's Creature to première.

ROH returns to cinema

5 August 2021

The Royal Opera House's international cinema programme is to return after sixteen months of closure, bringing ballet and opera to more than 2,000 screens across the globe.

The World in a Weekend

4 August 2021

The traditional annual Billingham International Folklore Festival of World Dance this year will see a scaled-down version, The Billingham Weekender—The World in a Weekend.

McNicol becomes ENB School Associate

30 July 2021

Choreographer Andrew McNicol has been announced as English National Ballet School’s first Artistic Associate.

KVN Coppelia at the Cockpit

29 July 2021

Kevan Allen's reimagining of Coppelia, the inaugural performance by KVN Dance Company, will open at the Cockpit Theatre for a limited run.

Wales-based choreographers create outdoor performances

29 July 2021

The National Dance Company Wales Open Air Performance tour will visit outdoor spaces across Wales this August, also streamed as part of ZOO TV’s online Edinburgh Fringe programme.

“Inspiring stories”: Serendipity’s latest publication

Serendipity discovers whether dance can change the world

25 July 2021

Serendipity is to release its 12th publication focusing on dance from the African and African Caribbean Diaspora, Creating Socially Engaged Art: Can Dance Change the World?

“Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity”: Critical Mass 2022

Dance chance for young West Midlanders

21 July 2021

Young dancers aged between 16 and 30 from across the West Midlands are being given the opportunity to get involved in some of the biggest events of 2022.

The B-SIDE Hip-Hop Festival in Birmingham in 2019

Annual hip-hop festival moves to Coventry

20 July 2021

Birmingham Hippodrome and Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 have revealed that the Hippodrome's annual hip-hop festival will open Coventry's CVX Festival.

Stars of Québec return to Edinburgh

16 July 2021

A virtual showcase of circus, theatre and dance for Qué[email protected] for Assembly Festival will be launched in an hour-long broadcast before the shows start running live.

Royal Ballet dance and music joiners

13 July 2021

The Royal Ballet has announced new dancers and conductors for the 2021–22 season.

Royal Ballet visits Yeo Valley

11 July 2021

Guest Artists of The Royal Ballet will visit Somerset for two special open-air performances.

Elmhurst cancels summer shows

7 July 2021

Elmhurst Ballet School has confirmed its summer run of shows, including the streamed performance, will not go ahead this year.

ENB's Nutcracker returns

6 July 2021

Following a year in which English National Ballet was unable to present a live version of Nutcracker for the first time in its 70-year history, this December sees the show return.

NDCWales: Open Air Performance

4 July 2021

Wales-based choreographers will create 45-minute dance performances for outdoor performance this summer for National Dance Company Wales.

U.Dance youth dance summer festival

4 July 2021

Karen Hauer, Sir Matthew Bourne and more announced for U.Dance National Festival 2021, One Dance UK’s free youth dance festival in July.

All or Nothing Aerial Dance tour

2 July 2021

Edinburgh's All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre will tour Scotland with a new outdoor, interactive production, The Swings, staged on a five-metre-high swing set.

Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo return to live stage

2 July 2021

For this 2021 edition of "L’Été Danse!" (Summer of Dance), Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo will offer two series of shows.

Royal Ballet cancels performances

1 July 2021

The Royal Ballet has had to cancel Summer Draft Works due to a number of dancers having to self-isolate.